Improved tack-extractor



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

F. M. OSBORN, OF DOVER PLAINS, NEW YORK.

IM PROVED TACK-EXTRACTOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,059, dated October 23, 1866.

scription thereof, whichiwill enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in which- Fi gnre 1 is a side view of the tack-extractor and Fig. 2, atrausverse vertical section taken in the plane ofthe li'ne x x, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The present invention relates to a novel and veryluseful and convenient implement for eX- tracting or drawing ont tacks and other similar fastening devices, whereby it can be accomplished with the utmost ease and rapidity, and with but little labor or trouble, as will be 'obvious from the Afollowing detail description thereof.

A in the drawings represents the handle ot the tack-extractor, which may be made of castiron or any other suitable metal or material, with one end, B, bent and made ot' a fork shape, or with two prongs.

To the'under side of the handle A, and near its bent or fork shaped end B, is Illing or swiveled a prop or support, D, which, when the implement is being used, serves 'as a fulcrum or support for the handle, whereby great power is enabled to be brought to bear upon the head of the tack held between the pronged end of the implement, and thus the tack withdrawn or extracted with ease and with but little labor, the swiveling` of the said support enabling its position to be so adjusted as to produce a greater orless amount of leverage, according as may -be desired or necessary.

In lieu of s0 swiveling the prop or support D to the handle or lever of the implement as to be susceptible of adjustment, as above explained, it may be connected therewith so that it cannot be swung either to the right or left,

or, in other words, iiXed to the handle; but I 

